Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1887-11-04
DELEaATE ECHOLS-THE 4

ELEGATE ECHOLS-THE As
SAUL1'S ON HIM.
The Republican allies of Foraker, Sher-
man, and Malone in Augusta county are
frantic to beat Echols for the House Of
Delegates. Well they may be, for in his two
terms he has assumed a prominence in
that body which. while it is gratifying to
the pride of the Augusta County Demo-
Gratis, is also thorn in the side of the
Republican party. His crime in the eyes
of the Republican party is that he under
stands politics rs well as legislation, and
the smartest Fora kerite and Mahonite
among them cannot throw dust III his
eyes. In addition to the Bourbon assaults
on him in the Valley VarQiniaaa, which
have the merit of being put squarely and
openly before the people, where they can be
answered. a pamphlet which has not that
merit Is being privately circulated, attack
ing Mr. Echols' record. 1t is evidently
gotten out trusting, as did the Lawyers and
Doctors and Editors Of the Republican
meeting of October 9Th, to the ignorance of
those VINO shall read it. We shall notice
the charges in it. Here is the
LIST. ''He has undoubtedly exhibited the
most bitter partizanship, turning out Judges,
School, College, Asylum and other Elymosy-
nary Boards, for party purposes alone"
He has done that very thing and we
hope will continue to do it. 1t was what
the Democrats of Augusta sent him there
to do, and he did it we'll. He did it near
ly as we'll as the Republicans did when
they turned the Democratic officers
and even poor Eaborigso men out Of the W.
L. Asylum and the Institution for the
Deaf. Dumb and the Blind at Staunton;
when they turned out Democratic school
board, when they turned out the Boards
of the Virginia Military Institute, Blacks
burg College. University Of Virginia;
Boards and officers of all the Asylums and
$ the rest. and filled the courts with Re
publican judges! Echols did what the
people of Augusta wanted him to do and
he did 1t we'll
I'd. 'sHe voted against Franklin's resolu-
ton to repeal the infamous Anderson Cor
mick bill, and restore free suffrage, an hon
est ballot and fair count"
And the people of Augusta want him to
vote against its repeal every time reso-
luton comes up. The Anderson McCor-
mick election bill was passed because
the whole election machinery of Che State
was in the hands of the county Judges,
every one of whom had been put in by a
Malone legislature. These Judges. cleo
ted as partizans. had the appointment of
every election officer. How it had resu.-
ted, let the evidence taken IN the contes-
ted elections before the House in 1853 an
swer. Read the testimony in the Rock
ingham county election where it was ties
titled on oath that election judges appoin-
ted by Malone Judge, left their stand dur
ing the voting and went up and down the
road electioneering tor Malone members
of the legislature and catching voters be-
fore they came in sight of the polling
booth. Read the the testimony in other
contests. The Democratic legislature gave
the people fair election law in the. An
derson- Mccormick law and the law has
proved itself 30. Last fall under this An
derson-M Mccormick Law Jacob YosG rep
was returned elected in a district Demo-
cratic by 1900 majority; T. FL. Il. Brown,
(Rep.) was returned elected in district
Democratic by 500 majority; j. r. Brown,
(Rep was returned elected in district
Democratic by 2.4O0 majority. and S. l.
Hopkins, (Labor) was returned elected In
a district Democratic by 3 900. 1t has
given an ''honest ballot and fair COUNT
and no Republican can deny it without
stultifying himself.
Sd. 'He voted against printing the report
of the Democratic committee that investigated
the scandalous mal-administration of the af-
fai of the Eastern Lunatic Asylum under
Democratic management, thereby seeking to
keep that information SO damaging to his
party from the people,"
Was there ever a proposition more
shocking to humanity ard decency? A
report to be printed and broadcasted over
the State exposing the names and acts of
patients. some of them females. whose af-
Fiction should secure to them from all
noble minds the sacredness of silence
And this demanded to be done confessed
~ for political effect-that 1t might benefit
the Republican party, if benefit there
could be in the facts elected. It is propo-
sition we shall not even discuss, and we
find it hard to believe that any man with
human heart in his bosom, even in the
excitement of political campaign, could
make so revolving proposition. The
pamphleteer ought to know from the his
tory Of one asylum in the State, that the
most awful accident and loss of life may
occur under circumstances that no sane
man would attribute to politics; as also
may occur in any asylum, just as acct
dentally, scandals which no human fore.
sight could have provided against.
4th. 'tHe voted dgainst the people being
informed Of the daily proceedings of the Debt
Commission, but be voted to incur the ex-
pense of stenographer to the Commission"
He didn t vote against the people being
Informed" but he held as every man who
KNOWS anything about business would
hold. that the doors of strictly bust
ness conference held IN private room
should NOT be open to tbs Richmond
crowd whose curiosity wanted to be Salts